Pol Pot, Hafizullah Amin of Afghanistan and other left-seeming ultras were
classifed by US diplomatic and intelligence strategists as "national
communists."  They were seen, essentially, as allies in the Cold War. In other
words, they were to communism what the nazis were to socilaism.

Harry Kershner wrote:

> Michael Pugliese is a disinforming right-wing hack who occasionally
> exposes his ignorance on American television. He is to Chomsky what Ronald
> Reagan is to Einstein.  --
>
> On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:25:00
>  Michael Pugliese wrote:
> >CHAPTER 3: THE CHOMSKY-LACOUTURE CONTROVERSY
> >http://www-mcnair.berkeley.edu/uga/osl/mcnair/Sophal_Ear_canon.html
> >
> >Questions that are obviously crucial even apart from the legacy of the
> >war--for example, the sources of the policies of the postwar Cambodian
> >regime in historical experience, traditional culture, Khmer nationalism, or
> >internal social conflict--have been passed by in silence as the propaganda
> >machine gravitates to the evils of a competitive socioeconomic system so as
> >to establish its basic principle: that "liberation" by "Marxists" is the
> >worst fate that can befall any people under Western dominance.
> >
> >--Chomsky and Herman, 1979[115]
> >
>
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